Spain’s Alvaro Morata missed the decisive penalty against Spain at the 2021 European Championship. On Instagram, his wife now showed what the couple has to endure.
Alice Campello-Morata is a model and influencer. More than 2.5 million people follow her on Instagram. And mostly it’s good-mood pictures that she posts on social networks: She shines, she poses, she shows herself in chic clothes or in a bikini. And now and then there are private snapshots with her husband and children.
Alice Campello-Morata makes hate reports public
On Wednesday, however, there was no good mood on her Instagram account. Because Campello-Morat made news public that reached her and her husband. Her husband is Alvaro Morata, Spanish international. Already after the preliminary round there were reports of hate messages against the striker after he failed to hit the goal in some games. On Tuesday, in the European Championship semi-final against Italy, the Spaniard became a tragic figure. The 28-year-old Juventus attacker came on as a substitute, scored the acclaimed 1-1 that saved Spain in extra time and ultimately on penalties – and it was Morata, of all people, who missed the decisive penalty. In addition: Campello-Morata and their children are Italian – so the duel on the lawn was also within the family.
What then rained down on the couple on social networks is hard to bear: hate messages, insults against their children, even death threats can be read on social networks. The model posted some of these messages in her Instagram stories. And then added the following message: “Let us remember that it is a sport that is supposed to bring people together and that is not there to vent your frustration,” she wrote about the insults. “I really hope that there will be tough measures against such people in the future: that is shameful and unacceptable.”
However, she personally does not suffer from this news. “But I think if that happened to a more fragile woman it would be a problem.”
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